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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
So the women who need Herceptin a drug known to alleviate the affects of breast cancer should be made to go without it or even pay for it theirselves?? I can't believe we are saying that is right. What is this country coming to when some really believe that drugs known to work against cancer are being denied. I hope and pray none of us ever finds ourself in the position of needing the drugs and being denied them!!!
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Well no, I'm not saying that as that is a drug that has already been proven effective, though not everyone responds to cancer treatment so that is taken into account.
We receive so much more than a lot of people in the world but we don't have the best health care system. I can only hope that we use the OMC through the EU to take note of better health care systems in existence and try to improve the basic foundation of the NHS. I know anti-EU people will mock this and highlight that OMC is not binding in any way, but I believe that our government would choose to do the most efficient things to prolong lives, save lives and avoid our people getting ill in the first place. It isn't fixed with the wave of a magic wand though and advanced cancer drugs don't make themselves.